Peter Walgenbach

Peter Walgenbach (born June 13, 1962 in Ratingen ) is a German business economist.

Life

Walgenbach studied business administration and psychology at the Universities of Mannheim and Düsseldorf . He then became a research assistant at the University of Mannheim with Alfred Kieser and at the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), in the research area of ​​industrial economics . In 1994 he did his doctorate in Mannheim with the thesis Middle Management: Tasks - Functions - Work Behavior . Walgenbach was then appointed scientific assistant to the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Mannheim. A scholarship from the Julius Paul Stiegler Memorial Foundation enabled him to do research at Stanford University in 1997 . Also in Mannheim, Walgenbach completed his habilitation in 1999 with the work Die Normgerechte Organization: a study on the origin, dissemination and use of the DIN EN ISO 9000 series of standards.

In 1999, Walgenbach was offered a professorship for organizational theory and management at the political science faculty of the newly founded University of Erfurt . In 2008 he was offered a professorship for General Business Administration / Organization, Leadership and Human Resource Management at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .

Walgenbach was a visiting scholar at the Stockholm School of Economics in 2016 and received the Humboldt Award from the Riksbanken Jubileumsfonds .

Research priorities

Organizational theories , especially their further development and empirical verification, are central to Walgenbach's research . Associated with this are the research areas of organizational structures , the behavior of organizational members and the change in organizations.

Publications (selection)

• with Alfred Kieser : Organization. 4th edition 2003, 5th edition 2007 and 6th edition, Stuttgart, 2010: Schäffer-Poeschel. ISBN 978-3-7910-2926-9 .
• with Renate E. Meyer : Neo-institutionalist organization theory , Stuttgart, 2008: Kohlhammer. ISBN 978-3-17-019088-7 .
• with Arno Scherzberg , Tilmann Betsch , Helge Peukert , Alexander Thumfart , Gerhard Wegner : Klugheit. Term - Concepts - Applications , New Political Science Series , Volume 8, Tübingen 2008: Mohr-Siebeck. ISBN 978-3161496905 .
• with Arno Scherzberg, Tilmann Betsch, Hermann-Josef Blanke , Arno Waschkuhn and Gerhard Wegner: Smart decision-making: disciplinary foundations and interdisciplinary connections. , New Political Science Series, Volume 4, Tübingen 2006: Mohr Siebeck. ISBN 978-3161489884 .
• Organization conforming to standards. A study of the origin, distribution and use of the DIN EN ISO 9000 series of standards. Stuttgart, 2000: Schäffer-Poeschel. ISBN 3-7910-1621-0 .
• with Rosemary Stewart, Jean-Louis Barsoux, Alfred Kieser and Hans-Dieter Ganter: Managing in Britain and Germany . London, New York 1994: MacMillan and St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-333-60646-9 .
• Middle management, tasks - functions - work behavior . Wiesbaden, 1994: Gabler. ISBN 3-409-13890-0 .

Web links

• Page from Peter Walgenbach on uni-jena.de
• Works by and about Peter Walgenbach  in the German Digital Library